Take A Look Tour – Our School Room

I love peeks into other families’ school rooms!  Whenever I’m in a friend’s home, I want to snoop around their school room to see what tricks they use to organize and how their set-up works for their family of scholars. So, today, I’m giving you a peek into our school room! 

Giving up our formal dining room, so we could have a dedicated school room was an easy choice for our family for a few reasons: 1 – We’re casual folk and have a large enough eat-in space in our kitchen. 2 –  I figure, since we’re home most every day, then most, if not all, of the spaces in our home should be usable every day. And not only that, but our best and biggest spaces should be given to the uses of the things we do the most. Know what I mean?

By way of details….

The cabinets pictured in the first pic are full of my teaching supplies, the littles’ notebooks & workbooks, puzzles, games, etc.  Each child has one shelf where they are responsible for keeping their notebooks, art books, travel books, workbooks, and AWANA books.  

The table is our primary workspace.  Each child has a seat, which they sometimes rotate depending on which one little sister claims! It works great, because we can work on individual projects or fill the table with a group project.  

The chalkboard and laminated wall map I use for group teaching.  Having the map at eye level for my littles has made it so accessible for them & they really enjoy studying it. 

The old library card catalog is full of various small supplies, like erasers, crayons, tracing shapes, stickers, etc.  The bottom two rows are full of toys that my youngest can get into to play with during school.  

And get into them, she does!

The shelf below the window is a frame ledge from Ikea that my husband installed.  I love having books on attractive display for my littles to grab anytime and sit down to flip through.  As you can see, it has books on topic for CC, as well as seasonal books.  I rotate these books every other week or so to keep it interesting.  They love it!

Not pictured are all the various other places we plop down around the house to read a book, create music, make a craft, motion out our timeline, dance to classical or CC music, or listen to an audiobook!

What about you? What’s your space like? I’d love to see! Use Instagram to post your school room photos and tag them #takealooktour or #ccathome.

I can’t wait to see what you share!